This week, Student Senate discussed elections, the Senate retreat, the planned visit of President Nancy Dye at next week's Senate meeting and the image of Senate on campus. Two senators also resigned.
Senators Toshio Mana, conservatory sophomore, and Erica Wagner, college junior, resigned from Senate at the Sunday meeting. According to Senator sophomore Mathew Green, both senators felt overcommitted. Wagner will continue sitting on the Educational Plans and Policies Committee.
Because of the resignations, 12 of the 13 senate candidates were elected this week instead of the 10 originally planned. (View the election results.)
Senate discussed the upcoming Dye visit. She will attend next week's Senate meeting to discuss long-range planning.
They also discussed logistics for the collection of election ballots and tabulation of results. They planned a Senate retreat to be held before next week's meeting to educate the new senators about Senate by-laws and proceedures.
Senators also debated the image of Senate on campus and the staff box about senate election posters in last week's Review.
A new Winter Term home page was created over the summer on Oberlin Online, and will display information about Winter Term opportunities, regulations and deadlines as the Winter Term process continues.
Currently, the home page contains a copy of the updated Winter Term Handbook, which is a combination of the old faculty and student handbooks.
In late October or early November the Winter Term Supplement, the catalog of College-sponsored projects, will be available on-line.
Philip Highfill, chair of the Winter Term committee and associate professor of Accompanying, said that the changes were made to make Winter Term information more accessible.
"I don't want people to be unaware of changes in Winter Term," Highfill said. He also said, "This is the time people should start thinking about Winter Term."
Last evening, students sat or stood outside of their dorms, Mudd Library, Wilder Bowl, North Quad and other vaious locations to catch a glimpse of the last total lunar eclipse, visible from North America, of the millenium.
The total eclipse of the Harvest Moon, the full moon closest to the autumn equinox, occurred at 10:19 p.m. and ended at 11:29 p.m..
Despite the clouds that spread across the sky, students were intent on seeing the eclipse. "I like lunar eclipses and my parents wouldn't ever let me stay up to see any," first-year Diana D'Agostino said, as she sat on the grass in North Quad with a camera in hand.
Three first-year students were also sitting in North Quad waiting to see the eclipse. "I'm disappointed because I can't see it," Joanna McCoy said. Sitting beside McCoy, first year Amber Schulz pointed to the sky and said, "There were a lot of clouds so it was really fuzzy." I
n front of Barrows Hall, there was another group looking up at the sky. The group of four were also disappointed that the sky was covered with clouds. First-year Yair Evnane said, however, "It's nice to look at the sky when something special is happening."
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